The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1887-01-19
WASTE rArEsa.
x'h0HsnnsIs OF Pounds Co1aeCtea Am-
nualfy and Made tato New Slse~fs.

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There are, doubtless, many people who
have asked themselves what becomes It all
the waste paper which is continually lying
about. Where do all the old newspapers go
to? What becomes of the old ledgerA, the
masses OF correspondence turned ont Of
waste paper baskets almost daily, the huge
posters torn down from advertising stations,
the small hand-bills circulated by the mil
lion, the thousand aud one odds and ends
of stationary which have served their turn
and been condemned TO pass into another
stage Of existence? There Is no doubt that
much of this waste paper is allowed to rot
and that quantity Of it is burned but the
greater bulk of II is turned into other uses
When we remember that more than 2,000,-
DOC, 600 poifnds weight Of paper isproduced
annually, We must see that after it has all
passed through the different uses for which
II was manufactured there must be ire
mendoas quantity Of waste material.
There are in London about sixty-iys
lealers In waste paper, sone them engaging
in their trade in very large way. That
some of these waste paper merchants are able
to pay out large sums We may learn from the
fact that in 1879 the waste paper from the
government stationary otiices produced the
sumof ES4, 600. These papsrmerohants gath
sr their stores together through the efforts
ofatremendous army of workers. Dustmen,
servants, caretakers,n women who go out
charing and who look upon all the ais
used newspapers as pefkisiSs, children.
and the prowlers Of the deserted metropoli-
tan streets, all help 70 bring vast mass of
waste paper to the warehouse of the
merchant. Then, again, there are dealers
in old paper who send out vans and sacks
ITO any part oftown or country" buying
any description Of the desired article from
Yesterdays 99asiss Times 70 she wrapping of
pound of sugar. The price paid for all
this refuse varies. Account books made of
good paper will fetch from eight shillings to
ten shiilings per hundred weight while
newspapers, magazines and printed matter
generally viii bring from S. tots. ca. pen
hundred weight.
At the paper mill all these various collec
lions are reduced TO Older. First ofaall
they are sorted by women who earefully OK.
anime every separate article OF the mass Of
waste placed before them. The paper is
divided generally into three piles-the first
If printed paper, the second of writing
paper aud the third of miscellaneous odds
and ends. During this sorting some strange
.hings come to light There are often
found checks, bank notes and iewelry in
the heaps ofmaterial.
After thepapei Is sorted Il is boiled in
large receptacles. specially made for six
hours. When the heterogeneous mass is flu
ally resolve into pulp it is taken to the
bleaching room and there stepped in chloride
ime. Great care is taken al this stage Of
ihs proceedings in oder to avoid iuipry
10 the texture Of The fabric. Ate,
ibis the pulp is cltsred of tho bleach.
ing liquor and size Is added 10 II. u is
then mixed with a little compound of caus-
tic soda and pulp Of straw. Then it passes
into the stuff chest, whtrein are added 10 it
the different eolnts necessary to make it
blue, or toned, OF antique II is con.
tinually stirred in order that II may he Of
equal thickness.
The machine into which this mass of
pulp is next introduced in order to be made
into new paper contains y revolving wire
screen which hos no fswsr than 5000
holes to the square inch. Through these
holes the water is carried on. The pulp
passes ON through a succession of rollers,
each pair oxerting more pressure than the
last, until at length it comes to the drying
cylinders, which dry IL BY means Of steam.
1t is then smoothed out by more rollers and
wound upon reel Thus the mass Of
waste lnaterisl gathered from street and
highway, from cottage and palace. Il re-
created and mnde into new paper.